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The QC, Vol. 84, No. 09 • October 30, 1997

1997_10_30_001

WHITTIER
COLLEGE
October 30,1997
ampus
G O L L EG.E
■ Commenter
in Chief
Chief of Campus
Safety Ed Malone
gives his views on
the new detective l«
flick Kiss the Girls.
S -P..O R T S
■ Water the
Odds?
The Water Polo
team wins one and
loses one in their
first two games of
SCIAC play.
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TO >
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V ...TOTOTO
The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
OPINION TOPIC
5t}Toioaming at tlie Jloutk
Students discuss whether Whittier
College is environmentally
unfriendly, and if so, what we
should do about it.
P U.S
w
■ Kids 'R' Us
On-campus kids
are the Faculty
Masters of their
own domain.
Platner Receives Bomb Threat
■ CAMPUS SAFETY
by Adam Pava
QC Editor-in-Chief
Platner Hall, the Wardman
Library and Johnson Hall were
evacuated because of a called-in
bomb threat on Wednesday around
1:00 p.m. It was a false alarm.
According to Chief of Campus Safety Ed Malone, the off-
campus call came into the main
switchboard. The caller told the
operator that there was a bomb
planted in Platner due to go off at
2:00 p.m., then hung up. Immediately, the operator called Campus
Safety.
"Right after we got the threat,
we evacuated Platner and locked it
down," Malone said. All workers
in Platner—including Admissions,
Financial Aid and Media Center
staffs—as well as the students of
one class, were evacuated. Campus Safety officers performed cursory (visual) searches for odd objects as they evacuated people from
the building."We also evacuated
the library and Johnson [Hall] out
of precaution," Malone said.
"I was down in the basement
of Platner and Chief Malone came
in and nicely interrupted a conversation I was having," senior Molly
Tarleton said. "He asked us to evacuate because there was a bomb
threat. I said, 'Fine! No problem!
We're outta here!"
Students, faculty andstaffgath-
ered in the North Quad as the area
was roped off with "caution" tape.
"After the magic hour of 2:00
p.m. passed, we waited another 15
or 20 minutes, then I searched the
entire building with [Assistant
Chief of Campus Safety] Malinda
Hall and two Whittier police offic
ers," Malone said. "We found nothing unusual."
Malone said he searched for
"anything that didn't belong—under desks and in odd places." The
buildings were reopened around
2:30 or 3:00, Malone said.
"This is the first bomb threat
since I've been here," said Malone,
a seven year veteran of Whittier.
»Director of the Media Center
Rich Cheatham's Documentary Cinema class, which was scheduled to
take a midterm in Platner at 1:30
p.m., relocated to the slopes and
steps outside Wardman Hall. "Rich
walked bravely into the building and
emerged minutes later, our midterms
triumphantly held aloft," junior Ila-V
naSolsaid. "A hero was bom and the
test could go on."
Additional reporting by Carlos Estrada, QCAsst. News Editor
and Greg Steele, QC Managing
Editor.
Phone System to be Updated
■ ON CAMPUS
by Megan Carver
QC Staff Writer
Whittier College's Telecommunications Office has received
approval to install a new system to
improve the quality of the on-campus telephone service. The new
system will put an end to the busy
signal callers may encounter after
only dialing a few numbers, which
is due to a lack of phone lines.
Telecommunication manager
Tracy Bren said, "my hope is to
have [the new system] in by
Thanksgiving weekend, or Winter
Break at the very latest."
The current system, Private
Branch Exchange (P.B.X.), only
has a designated number of outgoing and in-coming lines. Once
those lines are full a fast busy signal indicates that the call cannot be
placed until a phone line is available.
Bren recognized the problem
and began researching different
programs to remedy the situation.
The best system she found as far as
quality is concerned, "without
switching to fiber" was a system
called Integrated Services Digital
Network (I.S.D.N.).
Senior Todd Hopkins in a state of vexation over receving a
busy signal because there are no phone lines available.
Liza Gershman/ QC Asst. Photo Editor
Unlike the P.B.X. system, lines
used under I.S.D.N. are not designated to either outgoing or incoming lines. They are what is called
"redundant," meaning that available lines can be used as either
outgoing or incoming lines.
The cost of telephone service
to students will, according to Bren,
remain the same: $22 a month.
The upgrade was originally
scheduled to be completed over
the summer. In order to upgrade
the P.B.X. system to an I.S.D.N.
system, the Telecommunications
Office had to order parts from
G.T.E., which were to be delivered
via U.P.S. The order was place
about four days before the unex
pected U.P.S. strike, causing the
College to postpone the upgrade.
The current obstacle is coordinating a time to have the new system installed. They first must "order from G.T.E. and get a window
as to when they are going to grace
us with their presence," Bren said.
There is also the problem of interrupting telephone service for up to
six hours, that would affect incoming calls.
Besides the affect this interruption will have on students,
faculty,staff, and administration,
Bren's greatest concern is the affect on Campus Safety, which
needs to be telephone-accessible
24 hours a day.
Faculty Passes New Curriculum
Second Committee Formed to
Address Implementation Concerns
■ CURRICULUM
by Adam Pava
QC Editor-in-Chief
The Whittier College faculty
reached consensus in passing the
new College curriculum at the
Faculty Meeting last Tuesday,
Oct. 21. Now, the Transition/
Implementation Committee begins its task of determining how
to realize the curriculum.
Issues of implementation include funding, the transition of
credits for current students, the
presentation of the new curriculum to the public, and making
i sure that professors wi 11 offer the
new courses.
The new curriculum could
be in effect as early as next Fall.
"It's over, but it's not over,"
said Professor of Political Science and Faculty Chair Fred
Bergerson. "It' s one thing to proclaim the curriculum, it's another to implement it."
College Provost and Dean of
Faculty Rich Millman believes
that, despite questions raised at
the Faculty Meeting, the new
curriculum will not create financial difficulties. "I am confident
that we will be able to do a quality job with either the resources
we have now or some number
close to that," he said.
"I will be in careful consultation with the [Transition/Implementation Committee as we
move forward to make sure this
curriculum is affordable and of
high quality," he said. According to Millman, one of his responsibilities as Dean is to look
for funding opportunities for the
new curriculum.
The Summer Curriculum
Committee, which spent three
years designing the newly-passed
curriculum, was headed up by
Professor of Political Science
Mike McBride. "We didn't consider the financial implications
when we designed the curriculum," he said. "It wasn't like
'how much will this cost?,' 'how
much will that cost?'"
Nevertheless, McBride
doesn't predict any budget im
plementations for the College.
"Of course, whenever you start a
new curriculum, there are small
monetary implementations," he
said. "But I don't think they will
be major."
"It doesn't mean increased
tuition, or changes in [professor]
salaries one way or the other,"
McBride said.
Millman agreed: "the [Summer Curriculum] Committee did
a very good job in working
through what teaching loads for
faculty will be, and also exploring what resources are available
[at the College]."
Students who started under
one curriculum will finish under
the same curriculum. The changes will effect primarily incoming
students. "As long as you are
continuously enrolled, you can
graduate under the catalog that
you started with," Millman said.
This newly-passed curriculum is vastly different than the
one designed last year, which
suggested the removal of January Term. Millman said that a
student forum held last January
"really did convince me to change
my mind. There are a lot of really
good things about [January Term]
that we would lose if we discontinued it," Millman said.
The Summer Curriculum
Committee recommended that
January Term be retained "if approximately 90% of the courses
can be staffed by full-time faculty." The Transition/Implementation committee will determine this.
Other changes in the new curriculum include the removal of
the Experiential course requirement, the addition of another writing course, a reduction in the
number of required paired courses, the incorporation of more science classes, the introduction of
a creative and kinesthetic requirement, and the inclusion of a Social Context requirement. [For a
more complete description of the
new curriculum, please see QC
issue 7; Volume 84.]
The new curriculum will also
give professors a more balanced
teaching load and should be more
"user-friendly" for students, according to McBride.
ISSUE 9 • VOLUME 84 • HAPPY HALLOWEEN, WHITTIER COLLEGE! (AND SUBSCRIBERS!)

WHITTIER
COLLEGE
October 30,1997
ampus
G O L L EG.E
■ Commenter
in Chief
Chief of Campus
Safety Ed Malone
gives his views on
the new detective l«
flick Kiss the Girls.
S -P..O R T S
■ Water the
Odds?
The Water Polo
team wins one and
loses one in their
first two games of
SCIAC play.
•■ TO I
Sm
.■:";:■;■:■::
at
TO >
'
w-*W
V ...TOTOTO
The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
OPINION TOPIC
5t}Toioaming at tlie Jloutk
Students discuss whether Whittier
College is environmentally
unfriendly, and if so, what we
should do about it.
P U.S
w
■ Kids 'R' Us
On-campus kids
are the Faculty
Masters of their
own domain.
Platner Receives Bomb Threat
■ CAMPUS SAFETY
by Adam Pava
QC Editor-in-Chief
Platner Hall, the Wardman
Library and Johnson Hall were
evacuated because of a called-in
bomb threat on Wednesday around
1:00 p.m. It was a false alarm.
According to Chief of Campus Safety Ed Malone, the off-
campus call came into the main
switchboard. The caller told the
operator that there was a bomb
planted in Platner due to go off at
2:00 p.m., then hung up. Immediately, the operator called Campus
Safety.
"Right after we got the threat,
we evacuated Platner and locked it
down," Malone said. All workers
in Platner—including Admissions,
Financial Aid and Media Center
staffs—as well as the students of
one class, were evacuated. Campus Safety officers performed cursory (visual) searches for odd objects as they evacuated people from
the building."We also evacuated
the library and Johnson [Hall] out
of precaution," Malone said.
"I was down in the basement
of Platner and Chief Malone came
in and nicely interrupted a conversation I was having," senior Molly
Tarleton said. "He asked us to evacuate because there was a bomb
threat. I said, 'Fine! No problem!
We're outta here!"
Students, faculty andstaffgath-
ered in the North Quad as the area
was roped off with "caution" tape.
"After the magic hour of 2:00
p.m. passed, we waited another 15
or 20 minutes, then I searched the
entire building with [Assistant
Chief of Campus Safety] Malinda
Hall and two Whittier police offic
ers," Malone said. "We found nothing unusual."
Malone said he searched for
"anything that didn't belong—under desks and in odd places." The
buildings were reopened around
2:30 or 3:00, Malone said.
"This is the first bomb threat
since I've been here," said Malone,
a seven year veteran of Whittier.
»Director of the Media Center
Rich Cheatham's Documentary Cinema class, which was scheduled to
take a midterm in Platner at 1:30
p.m., relocated to the slopes and
steps outside Wardman Hall. "Rich
walked bravely into the building and
emerged minutes later, our midterms
triumphantly held aloft," junior Ila-V
naSolsaid. "A hero was bom and the
test could go on."
Additional reporting by Carlos Estrada, QCAsst. News Editor
and Greg Steele, QC Managing
Editor.
Phone System to be Updated
■ ON CAMPUS
by Megan Carver
QC Staff Writer
Whittier College's Telecommunications Office has received
approval to install a new system to
improve the quality of the on-campus telephone service. The new
system will put an end to the busy
signal callers may encounter after
only dialing a few numbers, which
is due to a lack of phone lines.
Telecommunication manager
Tracy Bren said, "my hope is to
have [the new system] in by
Thanksgiving weekend, or Winter
Break at the very latest."
The current system, Private
Branch Exchange (P.B.X.), only
has a designated number of outgoing and in-coming lines. Once
those lines are full a fast busy signal indicates that the call cannot be
placed until a phone line is available.
Bren recognized the problem
and began researching different
programs to remedy the situation.
The best system she found as far as
quality is concerned, "without
switching to fiber" was a system
called Integrated Services Digital
Network (I.S.D.N.).
Senior Todd Hopkins in a state of vexation over receving a
busy signal because there are no phone lines available.
Liza Gershman/ QC Asst. Photo Editor
Unlike the P.B.X. system, lines
used under I.S.D.N. are not designated to either outgoing or incoming lines. They are what is called
"redundant," meaning that available lines can be used as either
outgoing or incoming lines.
The cost of telephone service
to students will, according to Bren,
remain the same: $22 a month.
The upgrade was originally
scheduled to be completed over
the summer. In order to upgrade
the P.B.X. system to an I.S.D.N.
system, the Telecommunications
Office had to order parts from
G.T.E., which were to be delivered
via U.P.S. The order was place
about four days before the unex
pected U.P.S. strike, causing the
College to postpone the upgrade.
The current obstacle is coordinating a time to have the new system installed. They first must "order from G.T.E. and get a window
as to when they are going to grace
us with their presence," Bren said.
There is also the problem of interrupting telephone service for up to
six hours, that would affect incoming calls.
Besides the affect this interruption will have on students,
faculty,staff, and administration,
Bren's greatest concern is the affect on Campus Safety, which
needs to be telephone-accessible
24 hours a day.
Faculty Passes New Curriculum
Second Committee Formed to
Address Implementation Concerns
■ CURRICULUM
by Adam Pava
QC Editor-in-Chief
The Whittier College faculty
reached consensus in passing the
new College curriculum at the
Faculty Meeting last Tuesday,
Oct. 21. Now, the Transition/
Implementation Committee begins its task of determining how
to realize the curriculum.
Issues of implementation include funding, the transition of
credits for current students, the
presentation of the new curriculum to the public, and making
i sure that professors wi 11 offer the
new courses.
The new curriculum could
be in effect as early as next Fall.
"It's over, but it's not over,"
said Professor of Political Science and Faculty Chair Fred
Bergerson. "It' s one thing to proclaim the curriculum, it's another to implement it."
College Provost and Dean of
Faculty Rich Millman believes
that, despite questions raised at
the Faculty Meeting, the new
curriculum will not create financial difficulties. "I am confident
that we will be able to do a quality job with either the resources
we have now or some number
close to that," he said.
"I will be in careful consultation with the [Transition/Implementation Committee as we
move forward to make sure this
curriculum is affordable and of
high quality," he said. According to Millman, one of his responsibilities as Dean is to look
for funding opportunities for the
new curriculum.
The Summer Curriculum
Committee, which spent three
years designing the newly-passed
curriculum, was headed up by
Professor of Political Science
Mike McBride. "We didn't consider the financial implications
when we designed the curriculum," he said. "It wasn't like
'how much will this cost?,' 'how
much will that cost?'"
Nevertheless, McBride
doesn't predict any budget im
plementations for the College.
"Of course, whenever you start a
new curriculum, there are small
monetary implementations," he
said. "But I don't think they will
be major."
"It doesn't mean increased
tuition, or changes in [professor]
salaries one way or the other,"
McBride said.
Millman agreed: "the [Summer Curriculum] Committee did
a very good job in working
through what teaching loads for
faculty will be, and also exploring what resources are available
[at the College]."
Students who started under
one curriculum will finish under
the same curriculum. The changes will effect primarily incoming
students. "As long as you are
continuously enrolled, you can
graduate under the catalog that
you started with," Millman said.
This newly-passed curriculum is vastly different than the
one designed last year, which
suggested the removal of January Term. Millman said that a
student forum held last January
"really did convince me to change
my mind. There are a lot of really
good things about [January Term]
that we would lose if we discontinued it," Millman said.
The Summer Curriculum
Committee recommended that
January Term be retained "if approximately 90% of the courses
can be staffed by full-time faculty." The Transition/Implementation committee will determine this.
Other changes in the new curriculum include the removal of
the Experiential course requirement, the addition of another writing course, a reduction in the
number of required paired courses, the incorporation of more science classes, the introduction of
a creative and kinesthetic requirement, and the inclusion of a Social Context requirement. [For a
more complete description of the
new curriculum, please see QC
issue 7; Volume 84.]
The new curriculum will also
give professors a more balanced
teaching load and should be more
"user-friendly" for students, according to McBride.
ISSUE 9 • VOLUME 84 • HAPPY HALLOWEEN, WHITTIER COLLEGE! (AND SUBSCRIBERS!)